Frank Herbert Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Real, Princess

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

• All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

  Frank Herbert

  God, Science, Men

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.432, Penguin

• He who controls the spice controls the universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Spices, Science Fiction, Sci Fi

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.183, Macmillan

• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, May

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

• This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Heretics of Dune. Chapter: The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives". Book by Frank Herbert, 1984.

• Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Restoration, Life Is, Mask

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

• There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

  Frank Herbert

  Wealth, True Wealth, Universe

  "The Green Brain".

• Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Errors, Principles

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.243, Penguin

• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Tasks, May, Endure

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

• Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, People, Risk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.84, Penguin

• The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

  Frank Herbert

  Attention, Draws, Ultimate

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.213, Penguin

• The universe does not work by our rules

  Frank Herbert

  Doe, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Destination Void”, Berkley

• Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Philosophy, Irreverence, Way

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.276, Penguin

• The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Errors, Principles, Persistent

• The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

  Frank Herbert

  Lessons, Things Change, Greater Power

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.162, Penguin

• Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Belief, Failing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

• There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

  Frank Herbert

  Done, Answers, Problem

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.199, Penguin

• If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Emotion, Deny, Internals

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.238, Penguin

• You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

  Frank Herbert

  Grants, Universe

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

• The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

  Frank Herbert

  Belief, Shakes, Supreme

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.55, Penguin

• Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

  Frank Herbert

  Answers, Sensible, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.339, Penguin

• Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

  Frank Herbert

  Chance, Madness, Surprise

• The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right
  decisions.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Decision, He Man

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.159, Penguin

• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Law, Names

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

• The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Steps, Logic

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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